"Hillary Clinton is the defender of
the corrupt and rigged status quo. The Clintons have spent decades as insiders
lining their own pockets and taking care of donors instead of the American
people. It is now clear that the Clinton Foundation is the most corrupt
enterprise in political history. What they were doing during Crooked Hillary’s
time as Secretary of State was wrong then, and it is wrong now. It must be shut
down immediately."

STEVE DOOCY, FOX NEWS: “I see that your campaign just sent out a statement a
few minutes ago regarding this, and you write: ‘It is now clear the Clinton
Foundation is the most corrupt enterprise in political history.’ You know,
there are a lot of people who are not up to speed on what the Clinton
Foundation has been doing that you feel is illegal.”

DONALD TRUMP: “Well, I think it’s been really well documented in the book
and the book has been absolutely approved by so many people. You’ve had
accounting firms going in there, you had so many people going in and it’s pay
for play. I mean, if you look at it, it’s pay for play. So many things happen,
money is paid, and then all of a sudden, lots of good things with the
[inaudible] money. Very, very bad situation.”

Trump doubled down on his claim telling the crowd at an Austin campaign rally that “It is impossible to
figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins.
The specific crimes committed to carry out that enterprise are too numerous to
cover in this speech.”

Donald Trump’s campaign manager,
Kellyanne Conway, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday that the Republican
nominee did not participate in “pay to play,” despite his donation to the
Clinton Foundation.

“Was your candidate donating that
money so that he could have access to Hillary Clinton whenever he wanted,”
Cooper asked.

“No, it seems like he had access to
her anytime he wanted. She went to his wedding,” she replied, adding, “No, he
was not paying to play.”

Incredibly, and despite Trump’s
earlier statement and remarks regarding the Clinton Foundation, Conway insisted
that Trump made the donations because he believed the foundation does good
work.

“The Clinton Foundation does a lot
of good work and I also want to say that for the record that they do,” she
said, adding: “They do good work. And let’s hope that that money went to good
use.”

Samuel Warde is a writer, social and
political activist, and all-around troublemaker.

Thought for the day

“Charlottesville is a great place that’s been very badly hurt over the last couple of days. I own, actually, one of the largest wineries in the United States. It is in Charlottesville.”

Donald Trump, responding to a question whether he would go to Charlottesville to offer support and comfort as so many Presidents have done in the past.

Quick fact check: Donald Trump does not own the winery; his idiot son Eric does under the name Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC. And at 36,000 cases annual production, the winery is not even the largest winery in Virginia, never mind the United States.

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